Edward William Webster

Background

Webster, Edward William was born on April 12, 1922 in London. Son of Edward and Bertha Louisa (Cornish) Webster. came to the United States, 1949, naturalized, 1957.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Elec. Engineering, University London, 1943; Doctor of Philosophy, U. London, 1946; postgraduate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1949-1951, 65-66; postgraduate, Columbia University, 1966; AM (honorary), Harvard University, 1989.

Career

Research engineer, English Electric Company, Stafford, England, 1945-1949; travelling fellow laboratory for nuclear science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1949-1950; staff scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1950-1951; lecturer, U. London, 1952-1953; physicist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, since 1953; chief radiological science division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, since 1970; professor radiology, Harvard University Medical School, Boston, 1975-1992; professor emeritus, Harvard University Medical School, Boston, since 1992; professor radiology division health science and technical, Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978-1986. Member commission on dose distbns. of high energy radiation beams for cancer therapy International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, 1960-1964. Member committee radiology NAS, 1962-1968.

Member commission on planning radiotherapy facilities, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 1964, Radiological Health Study section, United States Environmental Control Administration, 1969-1972, biological effects of ionizing radiation committee NAS, 1977-1980, oversight commission on Radioepidemiologic Tables, NAS, 1983-1984. Advising committee on environmental hazards VA, 1985-1995, Medical Use of Isotopes, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1971-1993. United States delegate United Nations Science Committee on Effects of Atomic Radiation, 1987-1997.

Secretary-general 2d International Conference Medical Physics, Boston, 1966-1969. Lecturer Harvard School Public Health, 1971-1986. Garland lecturer California Radiological Society, 1980.

Consultant Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan, 1988. Adams lecturer UOkla. Medical Center, 1989.

Langham lecturer U. Kentucky College Medicine, 1989. Taylor lecturer National Council on Radiation Protection, 1992, member, 1965-1989,honorary member, since 1989, consultant Presidential Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, 1994-1995.

Achievements

• Edward William Webster has been listed as a noteworthy Medical physicist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Advances in Medical Physics. Symposium Papers of the Second International Confer

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  • A primer on low-level ionizing radiation and its biological effects : a report of the Biological Effects Committee, American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Membership

Fellow Health Physics Society (Landauer award 1985, Failla award 1989), American College Radiology (commission member 1963-1993, Gold medal 1991), American Assn.Physicists in Medicine (founding member, director 1958-1965, president 1963-1964, Coolidge medal 1983). Member Society Nuclear Medicine (trustee 1973-1977), Radiological Society North America (vice president 1977-1978), New England Roentgen Ray Society (honorary, Executive Committee 1976-1977), Radiation Research Society, Sigma Xi (national lecturer 1988-1989).

Connections

Married Irene Ruth Henry, June 4, 1950 (deceased 1958). Married Dorothea Anne Wood, June 24, 1961. Children: John, Peter, Anne, Edward, Mark, Susan.

Father:

Edward Webster

Mother:

Bertha Louisa (Cornish) Webster

Spouse:

Irene Ruth Henry

Spouse:

Dorothea Anne Wood

child:

Anne Webster

child:

Mark Webster

child:

John Webster

child:

Susan Webster

child:

Edward Webster

child:

Peter Webster